They were looking to upgrade to a more flexible, robust wireless networking solution for their students. As BYOD becomes ever more popular we needed a solution that could grow with the school. With this in mind, we set out to place one Access point in every classroom, throughout the school. The school consists of 11 Buildings (Image below) The building spread over a sizable area. 36 classrooms, including a gym, kitchen and workshops. All are single-story buildings.

Since they were going to put an access point in every room it made sense to go for the UAP-AC-EDU model so they could replace their aging Public Address System at the same time. They are currently using he UniFi App for announcements, but the UAP-AC-EDU also has the added benefit of being able to use SIP to announce through their VoIP PBX, which they plan to upgrade to in the future.

“We now have the ability during emergency situations for our principal to communicate directly with staff in the classrooms and teaching spaces. As Network administrators we have a great web interface that is easy to understand, use and control our Wireless network.”- Network Admin

"We highly recommend UniFi for school network deployments. The installation has allowed us to create a robust wireless network as BYOD becomes a major part of New Zealand Schools. It gives the Senior Leadership team the ability to talk directly to the whole school in emergency situations, such as lock-downs, fire drills, etc." - Matt Evans - Head of IT

New Zealand School Deploys UAP-AC-EDU for BYOD Wi-Fi and Public Address System

They were looking to upgrade to a more flexible, robust wireless networking solution for their students. As BYOD becomes ever more popular we needed a solution that could grow with the school. With this in mind, we set out to place one Access point in every classroom, throughout the school. The school consists of 11 Buildings (Image below) The building spread over a sizable area. 36 classrooms, including a gym, kitchen and workshops. All are single-story buildings.

Since they were going to put an access point in every room it made sense to go for the UAP-AC-EDU model so they could replace their aging Public Address System at the same time. They are currently using he UniFi App for announcements, but the UAP-AC-EDU also has the added benefit of being able to use SIP to announce through their VoIP PBX, which they plan to upgrade to in the future.

“We now have the ability during emergency situations for our principal to communicate directly with staff in the classrooms and teaching spaces. As Network administrators we have a great web interface that is easy to understand, use and control our Wireless network.”- Network Admin

"We highly recommend UniFi for school network deployments. The installation has allowed us to create a robust wireless network as BYOD becomes a major part of New Zealand Schools. It gives the Senior Leadership team the ability to talk directly to the whole school in emergency situations, such as lock-downs, fire drills, etc." - Matt Evans - Head of IT

The speakers can be turned up loud enough that they can't be ignored. It does help that the school has a very talented janitor who made all the wooden mounting systems. We also use them in our own warehouse for alerts as well.

Also because the UAP-AC-EDU now supports SIP, we helped another school use them with their IP PBX’s wakeup service and scheduled all the bell calls for start, finish and break times. This replaced their old bell system.